حکمت و فلسفه (Dec 2022)
The Moral Justification of Evil and the Critical Original Research Consideration of Marilyn McCord Adams' View from the Perspective of Kantian Moral Theology
Abstract
The present article, in its analytical-comparative method, examines the problem of evil from the perspective of Kant's moral teleology and the faithful theology of Marilyn McCord Adams. In Kant's view, evil has no special status in nature, but it is merely one of the possible capacities of Nature, in the position of actualizing its powers. The human solution to prevent evil is an opportunity to emerge his intellectual and moral powers. It composes an absolute moral order that, contrary to his natural inclinations, transforms humans kinds into rational and creative beings and organizes human relationships. Kant's God is an idea that is assumed and sanctified as a supreme good over the world, following the call of moral conscience. However, nature in its moral and ultimate reading in Kant's third critique moves in the direction of human well-being. It can be considered an institution and foundation far from evil. On the other hand, M.M. Adams as a Christian thinker who has lived in the modern world, has attempted to take a different reading of the problem of evil. He interpreted it as a condition of man's likeness to God through the experience of divine suffering. An interpretation of evil and morality that is immoral in terms of basis and consequence, according to Kant'sreading of the nature of evil and morality
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